Monthly Archives: April 2025

Read this blog: The one where we jettison the shoes Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd March 2025 We had woken up on Friday to the rather dramatic news that a fire at the North Hyde Substation had caused a total power outage and Heathrow International Airport was consequently closed to all flights. As we were due to fly into Heathrow, this obviously caused us some considerable consternation. However, realising that nothing we could do would influence the speed at which the matter was resolved, we decided we would still spend our last day in Singapore visiting the Battlebox, the museum in the WWII Bunker at Fort Canning, as planned. After breakfast [see Dish of the day] and en route to the museum, Robert wanted his photo taken to showcase his two new branded bucket hats. Where better to do this than outside the Long Bar at Raffles? By opening time, a queue had already formed at the entrance to the Battlebox. As advised the day before, we had brought our Airpods for use with the audio guide, to avoid having to wait to be allocated headsets, and so we were able to jump the queue slightly. We were consequently the […]